"Encourage and Encourage Some More"
Activity
Summary
Youth feel visible and recognized for their efforts.
Instructional Strategies
1. Find opportunities to acknowledge how hard our youth are working.
2. It takes five words of encouragement for every one word of criticism for our youth to internalize the encouragement.
3. ÃThank you for helping,à ÃYouÃve worked so hard,à ÃI appreciate that you helped your friend,à ÃThanks for cleaning upà are examples.
Participant Tasks
For Teachers in Training: 1. Find opportunities to acknowledge how hard our youth are working.
2. It takes five words of encouragement for every one word of criticism for our youth to internalize the encouragement.
3. ÃThank you for helping,à ÃYouÃve worked so hard,à ÃI appreciate that you helped your friend,à ÃThanks for cleaning upà are examples.